Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 92 The Lively Red Maple Star
Qi Yuan stayed on Lei Yuan Star for nearly a year.

He was quite busy throughout the year.

Not only do they need to comprehend the laws, study formations, and teach disciples, but they also need to find ways to exchange some of their resources and keep an eye on the situation in their territory from time to time.
As the impact of killing the Black Demon King Narcissus in the battle on Maple Moon Star gradually spread, his territory suddenly became sought after by various large and small merchant groups, families, and minor nobles in the surrounding star systems.

The safety of a territory capable of killing a ninth-level domain lord is naturally beyond doubt.

Moreover, this territory is in a completely new stage of construction and development, and for some astute people, it is full of business opportunities!

In addition, some world lord families and top domain lord families in the Blue Bay Star Region learned in advance through certain channels that the owner of this territory would take over the position of Director of the Martial Department of the Blue Bay Star Region Branch of the Virtual Universe Company.

This position, however, is a powerful one that can truly affect their vital interests!
The main responsibilities of the various branches and military departments of the Virtual Universe Company are to manage a large number of powerful individuals directly under the Virtual Universe Company, as well as to collect and cultivate geniuses in various universe countries.

These two responsibilities granted each branch's military commander considerable authority.

Especially the latter responsibility—to collect geniuses and nurture them.

The Virtual Universe Company recruits geniuses not only through the Genius Battle, but also by regularly searching and judging elites across the entire universe as Level 3, Level 2, Level 1, and Special Level, ultimately selecting the most outstanding to enter the core layer.

In fact, compared with the battles between geniuses and strong men, the talents absorbed by this kind of training are no worse.

Each branch of the martial arts department has a certain number of elite training slots.

A behemoth like Virtual Universe Corporation invests a massive amount of resources in cultivating elites!

For some realm lords and domain lords, their family resources are limited, and the cultivation conditions they provide for their family members are also quite ordinary.

However, if we could obtain more elite training slots from the Martial Department and send more outstanding juniors into the Virtual Universe Company, these juniors could easily enjoy cultivation conditions that are thousands or even tens of thousands of times more favorable than those in their families.

It's like having a virtual universe company train talent for your family for free without spending a single penny!
Do you think those world lords and domain lords wouldn't be envious of these elite training slots?

The various branch ministers and military directors who directly controlled these quotas naturally became the objects of sycophancy for these local powerful families.

That's the situation in Qi Yuan's territory right now.

According to the message from his disciple Liao Li, there are quite a few heads of various families in the Blue Bay Star Region waiting on Red Leaf Star to "pay their respects" to the newly appointed director!

However, Qi Yuan's criteria for judging geniuses are quite different from others. He won't make any promises lightly before meeting the talents they recommend.

For the past year or so, he had been staying on Leiyuan Star and naturally had not had the chance to contact those people.

However, the Executioner who recruited him thought he had been detained by his 'former superior,' Soya, and had come to Soya several times to demand his release.
Lei Yuanxing.

More than a year has passed, and Leiyuan Star has completely changed.

The vast expanse of dilapidated ruins was completely leveled, and brand-new cities rose from the ground!

There is even a luxurious interstellar docking port that has been put into use.

With the world's powerful technology, achieving this within a year would be quite easy.

Inside the newly built nine-story tower called "Qiyuan Tower" on Leiyuan Star.

Looking at the ten members of the Thunder Origin Clan standing in front of him, and sensing the boiling aura of law emanating from them, Qi Yuan couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

After the hundred clansmen who had previously consumed the Dragon Essence to enhance their bloodline had consolidated their strength, he immediately selected ten of them who possessed excellent aptitude and temperament, and bestowed upon each of them a Source Crystal.

A single Origin Crystal fetched a price of over 2.7 trillion Cosmic Coins at the Lanting Auction, equivalent to 2.7 Chaos Units!
Ten Origin Crystals are equivalent to 27 Chaos Crystals! That's more than the entire wealth of three or four ordinary Realm Lords!

However, with such a huge investment, the results are naturally gratifying!
All ten members of the Thunder Source Clan seized the opportunity to directly cross the threshold of the Origin Laws, and not one of them held back!
It should be noted that these clansmen's cultivation levels had only just been forcibly raised to the Stellar level by Qi Yuan.

According to the evaluation criteria of Virtual Universe Company, these are definitely ten top-tier elites!

Of course, Qi Yuan also understood that these 'pseudo-elites' created by the Origin Crystal were still far inferior to true top-tier elites.

After all, although they have crossed the threshold of the laws, their own aptitude has not improved. Once the effect of the Origin Crystal dissipates, it will still be extremely difficult to continue to improve their understanding of the laws.

But the real elites only improve their skills faster and faster!
Of course, that's what they say, but the effects of the Origin Crystal are real.

Leaving aside the boost to their current strength from crossing the threshold of the laws, even if their energy increases keep up, these 'pseudo-elites' could very well grind their way up to the realm lord level over time.

A Realm Lord is a figure of great importance even in a star field!
"Haha, not bad, not bad."

Qi Yuan looked at the ten 'pseudo-special-grade elites' standing in a row and nodded in satisfaction.

After a moment, he spoke up and explained:

"I am about to take up my post in the Blue Bay Star Region. From now on, all matters concerning Leiyuan Star will be handled by you."

"Remember, strength is the foundation of everything. After I leave, you should diligently cultivate yourselves and quietly nurture your clansmen. Do not be overly ostentatious or cause trouble outside the clan."

Upon hearing this, the members of the Lei Yuan clan naturally responded immediately:
"Yes, Chief (Ancestor)!"

That same day, Qi Yuan set off to return to Red Leaf Star.

After all, it's been almost a year, and it's time for him, the newly appointed Director of the Military Affairs Department of the Blue Bay Branch, to go back and fulfill his duties.
Red Leaf Star.

Compared to before Qi Yuan left, Red Leaf Star is now a hundred times, even a thousand times more bustling. In the outer space of Red Leaf Star, spaceships and huge transport ships come and go like cars on the busy streets of Earth in his previous life.

In fact, to accommodate a sufficient number of spacecraft, an even larger 'space docking port' was built in near-Earth orbit outside the atmosphere of Red Leaf Star, which was even larger than the ground docking port.

Some unfamiliar alien spaceships can only dock at this space docking port, and the passengers of the spaceships can then fly or take a 'space train' to the ground.

Only a select group of confirmed internal members can receive the homing signal from the ground and land the spacecraft directly on the planet's surface.

Wow~
With a slight ripple in space, a dark blue, ancient sword-shaped spaceship traversed the dark universe and appeared in the starry sky.

Seeing the bustling scene on Red Leaf Star before him, Yuan Mu, inside the spaceship, exclaimed in surprise—

"Wow! Teacher! Is this still our Red Leaf Star? Good heavens, so many spaceships! Have all the spaceships from the entire Blue Bay Star Region come here?!"

Compared to him, a somewhat knowledgeable native, Cang Fan, who was visiting for the first time, was so astonished that he couldn't speak.

"My God, is this... is this the teacher's territory? It's so prosperous, even more prosperous than the Azure Wave Star where we were captured back then!"

Seeing the astonished expressions on his two disciples' faces, Qi Yuan chuckled softly:
"This is nothing. Red Leaf Star will only become more and more prosperous in the future. Let's go back first!"

"Let's go, let's go, haha, finally home!" Yuan Mu, a disciple of the Nawu Clan who was still in his youth, shouted excitedly.

……

Whoosh!
The dark blue, sword-shaped spaceship accelerated directly through the atmosphere and headed towards the surface of Red Leaf Star.

This scene naturally attracted the attention of many surrounding spaceships and ground personnel.

"Look, that spaceship is going straight into the atmosphere!"

"Is it a spaceship belonging to personnel from Red Leaf Star? But wait, the ground docking port isn't in this direction. Even if they are internal personnel, they shouldn't be able to enter from this side, right?"

"That goes without saying. Didn't you see that it's an E9-class spaceship? It must be carrying some important figure. Haven't a lot of important figures been coming to Red Leaf Star lately?"

"That's true. Hey, why has Red Leaf Star suddenly become so lively lately? Do you know who I saw last time? Lord Fudi of the Holmes family! He's a Realm Lord! I've only ever seen two Realm Lords in my entire life!"

"Who knows? It seems the new owner of Red Leaf Star has some unusual background."

Swish!
At the speed of an E9-class spaceship, it arrived directly above the temple on Red Leaf Star from outer space in the blink of an eye.

Huhuhu~
Qi Yuan appeared outside the spaceship with two disciples, and he directly stored the dark blue spaceship into his world ring.

Now, with his status and strength, he no longer needs to worry about the World Ring being exposed.

"teacher!"

The moment Qi Yuan and his group appeared, a purple-haired girl in silver armor appeared before them. She was none other than Liao Li, a disciple who had raised her strength to the ninth level of the cosmic level with the help of the nutrient capsule.

"Hehe, you've worked hard these past few days."

Upon seeing his second disciple, whom he hadn't seen for over a year, Qi Yuan smiled and praised him.

For more than a year, this second disciple has temporarily dealt with many visitors who came to Red Leaf Star, and he has really saved him a lot of trouble.

"It's not hard work, it's all what I should do."

Liao Li's dark eyes shifted slightly, then instantly locked onto the old man in black robes beside Qi Yuan, whose hair was streaked with gray and whose face looked extremely distressed.

"Teacher, is this our senior brother?"

"Haha, yes, senior sister, this is our senior brother!"

Before Qi Yuan could speak, Yuan Mu, the most impulsive of them all, eagerly began to introduce them.

"Haha, and there's also Senior Brother. This is Second Senior Sister Liao Li, whom I mentioned to you on the way. Hehe, as for me, you know me too. I'm Teacher's third disciple, the third junior brother of both my senior brothers and sisters!"

"You talk too much!"

Liao Li rolled her eyes at him, then bowed slightly to Cang Fan, "Greetings, Senior Brother."

Perhaps it's because he's been interacting with people more, but this once taciturn second disciple is now occasionally able to say a few more words.

A few years ago, she probably would have just stood silently to the side.

Cang Fan, standing nearby, felt a little embarrassed when he saw a ninth-level cosmic expert address him as "senior brother" and greet him.

However, he still forced a calm smile and replied, "Ahem, junior sister, greetings."

"Haha, you guys, you'll get to know each other better later!"

Qi Yuan, who witnessed this scene, smiled and waved his hand.

"Now, let's go into the main hall. I have a few things to tell you!"

It seems we've reached 200 monthly votes, so I'll add an extra chapter tomorrow!
P.S.: After considering the suggestions from readers, I realized that initially granting 100 Origin Crystals was a bit too extravagant and not appropriate at this stage. I've changed it to 10. Please feel free to point out any other inconsistencies or errors you may have.
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